US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpZI9it2rJM

tapped out at about the two minute mark of Kanye's deal, how sad & embarrassing & awful

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45826875
Mr Trump was asked by a journalist if West could be a future presidential candidate, and the president replied: "Could very well be."

Air Force Won’t Say Whether It Will Replace Air Force One With Kanye’s Hydrogen-Powered iPlane via @TaskandPurpose https://t.co/kHcyy8nmf9

— Jeff Schogol (@JeffSchogol) October 11, 2018

This is the stupidest day in American history, a record that will be broken by every subsequent day in American history.

— Matt "The Dang Deficit" Christman (@cushbomb) January 20, 2017

i've been reading through perlstein's latest, Invisible Bridge, which is about how the U.S. shifted from nixon to reagan during the 70s. like nixonland, it's full of all sorts of wonderful and disturbing anecdotes and long forgotten scandals of the day. while reading Nixonland, though, i often found myself thinking "well, at least things haven't gotten THAT bad today". part of that was because i was reading it before trump, and part of it was that the 60s were full of a lot of political violence that i have trouble imagining, even now. the experience of reading Invisible Bridge is different, though. feels like everything is much, much worse and much dumber than the 70s. that's my review of the trump era so far: less violent than the 60s, so much dumber than ever before

Stupidest day in US history since yesterday.

ITEM!

https://www.axios.com/michael-cohen-becomes-democrat-a73c59a5-2000-4f8f-b4d5-29d66deda15c.html

Why isnt trump in jail yet

Im ready for the next era. This era sucks

Treesh

xxxp Better to be a Democrat in prison than a Republican in Hell.

well you don't have long to wait, a mere 12 years as it turns out.

angling for 2020?

I was thinking of the UN climate report

C/D: Rick Perlstein

xp, lol karl your view of nixonland is correct imo.

The relentlessness of this shit is just beating down my already compromised level-best attempt to find small joys in day-to-day life.

The undertow wins. It's not even about paying attention to the news anymore. Tune it out, don't tune it out, it's irrelevant to the extent that this pervasive sense of dread is moving like a contagion between any two people with a conscience.

And also my baseball team lost.

makes me long for the days when Poppy Bush had KRS-One and Paris in the Oval

KRS is a Ron Paul supporter iirc

I find this stuff easier to bear (and tune out) than last week. My blood pressure's normal again!

not sure if Morbs is referring to Bush Killa or misremembering proud capitalist exploiter Eazy-E paying $80k to have dinner at a White House function for business owners

yeah carne, i know he lost the plot

just makin dumb joke

also in the white house today, separately from the kanye event: kid rock, mike love + weirdos

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump welcomed musicians Kid Rock and country star John Rich to the White House on Thursday as he signed legislation overhauling the way music is licensed and songwriters compensated.

Trump signed the Orrin B. Hatch Music Modernization Act on Thursday. The bill won wide bipartisan support in the House and Senate and is backed by the music industry. It’s named after the retiring Utah senator, who is also a musician.

Also joining the president were Mike Love of the Beach Boys, singer Sam Moore and the Christian group MercyMe.

The legislation creates a new independent entity that will license songs to companies that play music online.

The nonprofit collective will then pay songwriters, including those who wrote pre-1970s classics before music copyrights protected their work.

so...is the bipartisan drug bill signed by the prez any good? It looks like it, but I only read the NYT's summary.

Orrin B. Hatch Music Modernization Act

at last John Rich can listen to his music on the Victrola 6-in-1

they couldn't get The Mentors to show up for the signing?

Whoah, what little I've read in this thread in the last three minutes is too much Kanye for the whole year

I refuse to watch video of any of today's historic events WH because, well, fuck these fools

god that Olivia Nuzzi article and the Kanye rant are a hell of a 1-2 punch. you can feel your brain short-circuit in real time.

The only thing I want to know about the Kanye/Trump meeting is why Jim Brown thought it was a good idea to be there.

very glad i blocked twitter from my devices yesterday sheesh

Was surprised to hear about the Anne Coulter fanship by Nuzzi since i think she has been a regular guest on MSNBC shows over the last couple of years.

that shit about HIlary/superman cape/playing catch with daddy: these are just unrelated words without any coherent meaning. I mean what the motherfuck? how am I supposed to convince my 12 year old to do well in school and go to college when illiterate dumbfucks like this hold sway over a nation? I fucking give up. This is what America deserves. Burn every fucking inch of it to the ground

Get a load of this absolute shitbag: he wants you to donate "to Beto" to support him, but neglects to mention (except in the fine print that is easily missed) that A FULL FIFTY PERCENT OF YOUR DONATIONS GO INTO HIS POCKET. https://t.co/UUSMELtM4x

— Jeff B. (@EsotericCD) October 11, 2018

My perspective is starting to shift towards incalculable gratitude for each sensible & coherent utterance and every kind & selfless act ever delivered into the world by human beings. Who could have guessed those things would ever become so endangered.

Mencken’s bar of mere competence has been downgraded to mere coherence

"I love Hillary. I love everyone. But the campaign ‘I’m With Her’ just didn’t make me feel, as a guy that didn’t get to see his dad all the time, like a guy who could play catch with his son. There was something about when I put this hat on that made me feel like Superman. That’s my favorite superhero. You made a Superman cape for me.”

spelling it out. need it spelled out? here it is, spelled out

― Milton Parker, Thursday, October 11, 2018 6:44 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I agree this is shameful and terrible but they're not random unrelated words. This is patriarchy and misogyny in visible action--supporting Hillary made him feel like less of a man, and less able to participate in masculinity, whereas jumping on the Trump bandwagon strokes his sense that he's included in the benefits of (explicitly) maleness and (I think, implicitly) whiteness, which is not an uncomplicated statement but still...BOOM. There you have it, in simple terms.

Otm! I started writing something similar but you did a better job

And if it isn't clear now, rest assured that people will continue to dumb things down until they're communicating their brokenness like guileless toddlers. 'I don't like you having things because not having all of the things makes me feel bad.'

superman's cape is apparently a red bandaid for a combover over hairplugs gone horribly wrong-o
he's an old jester with a broken heart, who says turn me around and take me back to mar-a-lago

lol

you think Trump ever played catch with any of his sons

nope

hands are too small to throw a ball iirc

Perhaps not, but who here ever had the privilege of fast forwarding through the boring parts of action movies for their beloved papa?

Surprised Van Damme has never had occasion to visit this white house

He seems like the kind of dad who would have a screening room, but never let anyone watch movies with him

movies shown in that "man"cave ~ boof o'kavanaugh whose red, red wine spilled all over senator patrick leahy's stolen emails. president clinton, what do you think of ken "the report" starr's baylor tenure?

Got my vote

NEW from me via #FOIA: John Kelly called Elizabeth Warren an "impolite arrogant woman" in an email following a conversation he had with her about Trump's travel ban.

“Absolutely most insulting conversation I have ever had with anyone," Kelly wrotehttps://t.co/XzSkJGCdzr

— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) October 11, 2018